Usage examples for Pronouns

Famous quotes with Pronouns

• If we do no mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any objections to using female imagery and pronouns as well?

  Carol P. Christ
• Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?

  Carol P. Christ
• Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

  Holly Near
• In the criminal code we find no feminine pronouns, as "He," "His," "Him," we are arrested, tried and hung, but singularly enough, we are denied the highest privileges of citizens, because the pronouns "She," "Hers" and "Her," are not found in the constitutions. It is a pertinent question, if women can pay the penalties of their crimes as "He," why may they not enjoy the privileges of citizens as "He"?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Many feminists have been grieved or aggrieved by because the androgynes in it are called ‘he’ throughout. In the third person singular, the English generic pronoun is the same as the masculine pronoun. A fact worth reflecting upon. And it’s a trap, with no way out, because the exclusion of the feminine (she) and the neuter (it) from the generic/masculine (he) makes the use of either of them more specific, more unjust, as it were, than the use of ‘he.’ And I find made-up pronouns, ‘te’ and ‘heshe’ and so on, dreary and annoying.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

The antonyms for the word "non-evolutionary" are "evolutionary," "progressive," and "adaptive." These words indicate a trend towards change, growth, and development - quite the opp...